240 EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE. 



XXXIII. EXPERIMENTAL FARM. 



It is further intended, besides presenting a model farm, that it 

 shall likewise, in a measure, serve the purpose of an experi 

 mental farm. Besides presenting an example of the best man 

 agement, and the performance of all the customary operations of 

 a farm in the best and most approved manner, it is designed to 

 afford an opportunity of experimenting in various forms upon 

 manures, seeds, plants, cultivation, and the feeding and fattening 

 of animals, and upon every feasible subject, where practical 

 information and exact results are important to be ascertained. 



XXXIV. ECONOMICAL ARRANGEMENTS AT THE 

 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



Such, as I understand, are the outlines of the plan for agri 

 cultural education designed to be pursued at the College at 

 Cirencester. Its objects are not to teach its pupils how to labor, 

 but to qualify a class of persons for the management of their 

 own, or the estates of others. The farmers here are not, as with 

 us, workers on their own estates ; they are the managers or 

 superintendents of the work ; but it is obviously of the highest 

 importance that they should understand how every branch of 

 husbandry should be conducted. For the common laborer here, 

 in the present arrangements of society, I see no hope of his ever 

 rising above that condition in which he is born. There are 

 some extraordinary exceptions ; but they are very rare. Besides 

 the impediments which lie in the way from his entire poverty, 

 and the extreme difficulty of his ever acquiring more than six 

 feet of the soil, and that six feet below the surface, and after all 

 power of active improvement of it has ceased, any attempt to 

 alter his condition in this respect, it is to be feared, as I think I 

 have already shown, would be discouraged, certainly not aided, 



